Young Souls

Young Souls

Fair · Multiplayer · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
8.9h 12.3h to 100%
Value
$2.81/hr
Reviews
85% of 618 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.81/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 375 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 32 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate ($29.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Hammerwatch II ($4.99, scores 10).

More about Young Souls

3 of the 375 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

85% start to 9% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Great game to play coop over Steam Remote Play. Well worth playing. Good Story, fun combat.
SwiftncRecommendedafter 18hFeb 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Young Souls, developed by 1P2P and published by The Arcade Crew, is an inventive and stylish hybrid that successfully merges the classic beat 'em up formula with the structure and depth of an action RPG. At its heart lies the story of two rebellious teenage twins, Jenn and Tristan, who live with their adoptive father, a kindly scientist known simply as "the Professor." When he suddenly disappears, the twins discover...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hOct 2025Read on Steam
It is a tragedy that this game isn't more well known. It's beautifully animated, has a really good story with tons of interesting characters, doesn't overstay its welcome (less than 20 hours), and has a fantastic roll/parry combat system that has gotten my much less gaming inclined girlfriend into combat focused games. And it's a rare coop first game in the modern market, and it can be played solo as well. It has...
rjtsaigalRecommendedafter 21hOct 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Young Souls scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/985900/young-souls
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics81
Players85
Metacritic critics · 618 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer1P2P
PublisherThe Arcade Crew
GenreMultiplayer
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33